Husband And Wife Shot In Deadly Altercation Outside Pappadeaux Restaurant In Cobb County

Police say Anthony and Cynthia Welch were approached as they left the Pappadeaux Restaurant after celebrating her birthday. (Courtesy of WGCL CBS 46)

According to police, Kennesaw couple Anthony and Cynthia Welch had just finished dinner when they were approached by an apparent robber in the Pappadeaux parking lot. (Credit: Maria Boynton/CBS Local)

If you’d driven through the filled parking lot of the well-known restaurants on Windy Hill Road last night, you would have seen at least two Cobb County police cars and a security car on the premises. But on Friday night, reportedly according to witnesses, there was no security or police around.

Sunday night, a Cobb County police car was stationed in the parking lot where a couple from Kennesaw were involved in deadly shooting outside the Pappadeaux Restaurant Friday night. (Credit: Maria Boynton/CBS Local)

The eateries Pappadeaux and Pappasito’s basically share a huge parking area between them, which, on any given night, is packed with vehicles. Police say it was around 10:15 Friday night when husband and wife Anthony and Cynthia Welch had just left Pappadeaux after celebrating her birthday. As they walked to their car someone approached them. Family members reportedly say it was an attempted robbery that ended with the Welches being shot. Forty-eight-year-old Anthony was pronounced dead at the hospital. Cynthia, also 48, is expected to survive.

A security guard is stationed outside Pappasito’s which sits across from Pappadeaux Restaurant on Windy Hill Road. A couple was shot in the parking lot Friday night. The husband died. (Credit: Maria Boynton/CBS Local)

Police say the gunman ran away. The Welches had been married 25 years.

Maria Boynton

Maria Boynton
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